Another hectic day when my plans to do a sly 1,000 of my new work has been kicked out the window by my ‘real’ work. I think it is one of toughest things about trying to write a novel is spending most your day slaving and typing for something dull and business related when you have a brilliant idea bubbling away in your head…
But I wanted to spend 5 minutes just updating people where I am already before getting into some nitty gritty detail. So far I have sent my manuscript (or more precisely my introductionary letter, synopsis and opening chapters) to 3 agents- LBA, Darely Anderson who both rejected me with very nice bugger-off letters (is some ways I wish they had been harsher and not so patronising, at least it would give me something to rally against) and I have just sent submission to Aitken Alexander. I decided to send one every three or four weeks- not because that is what agents prefer but to be honest otherwise I would be spending all my time drafting letters and not concentrating on the next thing!
I realise now it is going to be a long long process- just getting someone to read it, meddling with my synopsis etc is going to be a massive job!
